Our May Pick: Hello, My Name is Doris

Again this month, I’ve chosen something that’s quite different from our usual fare of serious, issue-oriented films. It is: Hello, My Name is Doris, starring Sally Field.

Actually, you could say that it is issue-oriented because it’s a coming-of-age story for seniors. Watch the trailer (below) and you’ll see what this means. But the chief reason I chose Doris is that Sally Field decided to accept the starring role and I always trust her choices of roles and films. Plus, she brought along someone I’ve been missing from small and large screens: terrific Tyne Daly, whose best work, in my opinion, was on Cagney & Lacey, a TV breakthrough series about the partnership of a pair of female NYC police detectives.

Movie Club members will see Doris at the Varsity Cinema (ManuLife Centre, Bay & Bloor) on Tuesday, May 3, for the 1:40 screening. As always, let’s try to meet near the box office about 20 minutes earlier. If you don’t see me there, just go in and watch the film. Those of us who wish to nosh and natter afterwards will gather by the escalators and then descend to Scaccia. If you don’t see me/us there, just go down two escalator levels to the restaurant.

Here are the deets about Doris:

SYNOPSIS: 

After a lifetime of being overlooked and ignored, a woman of a certain age finds her world turned upside down by a handsome new co-worker and a self-help seminar that inspires her to take a chance on love in a witty and compassionate late-life coming-of-age-story.

TRAILER:

http://www.hellomynameisdorismovie.com/#trailer

REVIEW:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/hello-my-name-is-doris-20160311

INTERVIEW WITH SALLY FIELD:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/sally-field-on-her-new-dramedy-doris-and-finding-good-roles-for-women-over-50/article29717092/